no fear...just gotta go after it. once you get the first close one out of the way it's a cake walk. most will say to use a wakeskate, which I'm sure is good, but it can also be learned with your regular old wakestick. sorry i don't really have any good technique advice.

I agree. Use a wakeskate 1st... Once you land one it's a pretty simple/fun trick.

One thing that has helped make the raley easier is concentrating on a good progressive edge. When I learned the trick my approach was full-speed from the moment I started my cut. Now, I concentrate on a more progressive edge... Start in slowly, then gradually build to max edge. For me, this adds A LOT more pop... Which gives me more time to get the board back underneath my body. When I used the full-speed approach, it seemed that I was getting very little pop... Which meant I had to muscle my board back in a hurry.

This is how Mike Ferraro taught my daughter. He shortened the line. She did a few,made it longer,did a few,longer and so on. She just went from one length to the next until it was all the way out.Never gave her time to think about it. I was in the boat and the transition was seamless. She didn't fall once and to my knowledge never has.On a raley,that is.
Maybe that's just for girls though. Guys aren't scared are they?

The first time I ever really tried it was at the cable first without a board and at the starting dock, it takes the fear out of it completely. Then strap on a board and do a few small ones still at the starting dock. Then I migrated to doing it on a wakeskate around the corners on the cable. From there take the wakeskate behind the boat. By that time it'll be so far engrained in your muscle memory that the board will be easy.

We call this the raley board. My buddy and I had an extra Marius (we both ride the marius) and he put a couple grip pads on it so that the edging would be similar to our wakeboards as opposed to a wakeskate.